Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction.

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.